At 02:16 PM 10/19/2001 -0700, Ed Van Vliet wrote:
>I am trying to get a floating point number to display in a field with two
>decimal places.


You and me both!


>The code below gets a number entered by a user and adds it to a total. The
>total is subsequently displayed.
>It works OK but the answer gets displayed as x.yyyyyyyye, instead of x.yy.
>As an example, if the user enters the numbers 100.50 and 200.25,
>the answer is displayed as 3.0075000e instead of 300.75. I have not been
>able to find any routines that provide the decimal alignment that I want and
>I can't find the
>definition of FlpDouble which, I am sure, is a structure typedef.

The definition of FlpFToA is that it produces a scientific notation 
string.  I also want to know if there are convenient routines somewhere to 
format floating point numbers in normal non-scientific decimal notation.



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